Wichita eagle., 1887-04-07
RetrOgrade in Policy, Tyranny in
Principle and Vindictive
in Detail.
OVER THE OCEAN.
England.

LONDON, April 6-Prnce Alexander O
Battenburg has again declined to be electe.
ruler of Bulgaria.
Queen Victoria has arrived a. AK Le
Bains from Cannes. Her majesty is mucl
fatigued after the journey.
Doyle, the invincible, has been released
on ticket of leave He complains of In,
treatment received while in confinement
alleges that the prison authorities singl,
out Irish cOnVicts for especially hard pun
ishments
John Morley addressed an audience o.
six hundred Liberals at Victoria hail il
South London tonight He charged the
government with RussianiZing the admin
istration in Ireland and denounces the
crimes bill as "a hatefal instrument of op
preston. The measure, be said, was in
tended to lay the tenants of the landlord:
Who, flushed with triumph, would be
spurred on by their own deeds to harsh eX
actions, but the Liberals would not desert
the Irish people. The time was WAS when
lflshnen saw no light in the horizon,
save what shown across the floods of the
great Atlantic. Now they say a new light
nearer home. They no longer locked 10
the western alone-they looked to the
eastward too, and saw beacon Of hope
and sympathy from England, and that the
action would never be put out. Mr.. Nor
iey's speech aroused unbJunic8 enthusi-
aSm
The counsel Of the Liberal Federation
met In London today. Numerous delegates
were present from the provinces. The
president, Sir James kelsOn, denounced
the policy of the government as brutal and
said that they were trying to reduce the
Irish to the level of The HOttenlot. He
moved that the federation protest against
coercion as rerrOgrade in policy, tyranny
in principle and viudictive in detail
Admiral MaxSe reused an uproar by ask
ing whether The crimes bill was not really
ali anti coercion measure, aiming TO sup
press the shameful coercion Of the National
League, The speakers concluding words
were drowned with noise The presidents
motion Was approved, as was also resolu
tion expressing gratitude to Mr Gladstone
for his wisdom and courage in opposing
coerciVe measures The delegates made
arrangements for series of an;i-Coerciqn
demonstrations throughout the country.
An extensive fire occurred today in the
Swiss village Of Buchet, in the canton of
st Cali. Sixty houses We're burned and
many cattle perished in the flames.
The great permanent infantry barracks
at Aldershot are afire and being rapidly
burned. The flames started at noon and
have been raging ever since, famed to fury
by a gale of wind of such severity as TO
make the efforts of the tiremen practically
useless.
AT a meeting on Chelsea tonight letter
was read from Mr. Gladstone in which he
said: Our adversaries have availed them
selves of the fact that have taken a large
space in placing the Irish problem as
question of practical politics before the
country, 10 plead that it is q personal
affair; that 1t is not true conviction, and
that The people are not in genuine sympa-
thy with The justice of the Irish demand
A little reserve on my part will help them
60 be sooner undeceived and 10 profit more
efieclusily by the teaching they are al
ready beginning to discern In events,